Dairy farming in New Zealand has intensified by using more supplementary feed. While this boosts production, costs also rise and this ultimately cuts profits - and it adds more harm to the climate.
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The industry is in the hands of smallholder farmers who struggle to raise capital and practise good farming.
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Paying a higher price for milk at the supermarket won’t help farmers much as the Australian dairy industry is more exposed to international markets.
Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has announced a package of concessional loans and facilitation of access to assistance for the beleaguered dairy industry.
Two of the largest dairy cooperatives have been playing with farmers by pursuing a high price for milk when both should have taken into account fluctuations in the global dairy markets.
Cooperatives like Murray Goulburn and Fonterra and dairy farmers need to accept that lower milk prices will be the new normal in a more competitive global market.
Across the world prices have dropped 64% as too much milk is being produced.
The dairy sector in the UK is going through a period of high uncertainty. Not only are suppliers having to cope with retail price wars and the fact that milk prices are being reduced by the increasing…
Milk, a precious resource in many parts of the world, has become a throwaway commodity in wealthy countries. For example, in the UK, an estimated 4.2m tonnes of foodstuffs wasted per year are wasted, of…
Governments and donors have tried hard to improve dairy farming in sub-Saharan Africa in recent years. Many recognise that it has much potential to boost the economic situation of poor farmers in the region…
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Professor, Senior economist and team leader Food Marketing Research, Scotland's Rural College
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Senior Lecturer, School of Management, Massey University
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Sir Graeme Harrison Professorial Chair in Global Value Chains and Trade, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Professor of Dairy Production Systems, Massey University
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Winthrop Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate, Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University
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Caxton Professor of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Chair in Global Farm Animal Health, University of Bristol
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Reader in Sustainable Livestock and Food Security, University of Bristol
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PhD Student, The University of Edinburgh
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher, Monash Business School, Director Corporate Law, Organisation and Litigation Research Group (CLOL), Monash University
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, University of Windsor
